Senior Accounting Manager
📍 Location: Poland (Warsaw and Błonie) 🏷 Contract: Permanent | Full-time 🗂 Department: Finance & Accounting 📊 Reports to: Chief Accountant
We are looking for a seasoned accounting professional ready to play a key leadership role in a dynamic industrial environment, driving financial accuracy, compliance, and transformation across our operations.
Responsibilities
Accounting & Reporting
• Oversee end-to-end accounting operations (GL, AP, AR, fixed assets, cost accounting) for the production entity
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closings in compliance with IFRS and local GAAP
• Own statutory reporting and coordinate with external auditors
• Analyze manufacturing variances, inventory valuation, and CAPEX follow-up
• Provide actionable financial insights to drive operational efficiency
Accounting Transformation
• Lead the end-to-end redesign of accounting processes across two entities — mapping current state, identifying inefficiencies, and designing a harmonized, scalable target operating model
• Define and drive a structured transformation roadmap with clear milestones, ownership, and KPIs
• Champion automation and digitalization of accounting workflows (RPA, AI-assisted reconciliation, e-invoicing)
• Manage change across both organizations — engage stakeholders, communicate clearly, and ensure adoption
• Collaborate with SSC leadership on continuous improvement initiatives and ensure SSC teams are fully integrated into the transformation roadmap
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
• Lead and develop a team of accounting professionals
• Act as a key business partner to local management and Group Finance
• Liaise with tax authorities, auditors, and regulatory bodies
Experience & Education
• Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics
• Minimum 7 years of experience in accounting, with at least 3 years in a managerial role
• Background in an industrial, manufacturing, or FMCG environment is a strong asset
• Experience with finance transformation projects (process redesign) preferred
Technical Skills
• Strong command of IFRS and Polish accounting regulations
• Proficiency in SAP (FI/CO modules)
• Advanced Excel skills; familiarity with BI/reporting tools (Power BI, HFM/BFC) is a plus
Soft Skills
• Strong leadership and team development mindset
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Proactive, structured, and detail-oriented
• Ability to navigate complexity and drive change in a matrix organization
• Fluent in Polish and English (spoken and written)
What We Offer
• A strategic role within one of the world's most iconic global companies
• A truly international work environment with exposure to Group-level Finance teams
• Real impact on finance transformation
• Competitive compensation package & benefits
• Career development opportunities within L'Oréal's global network
• A culture built on inclusion, innovation, and bold ambition
RODO/GDPR
Information clause
The controller of personal data is L’Oréal Polska Sp. z o.o with its registered office in Warsaw (00-844) at Grzybowska 62. Contact with the Data Protection Officer and additional information about the personal data processing carried out by the Company is possible via e-mail address: [email protected].
The processing of personal data is carried out for the purpose of the recruitment process in accordance with Article 6(1)(c) of the General Regulation on Personal Data of 27 April 2016, (hereinafter GDPR). Data processing to a wider extent than resulting from the provisions of labor law, for the purposes of the future recruitment processes will be carried out on the basis of the given consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR.
Your personal data will not be disclosed to other entities without your prior consent. Your personal data may be made available at the request of entities authorized to do so under the law. The controller may, by means of a written contract, entrust to another entity the processing of your personal data to the extent and for the purpose necessary to perform the service. Your personal data will not be transferred to a third country/international organization.
Your personal data will be kept for a period of 2 years from the end of the recruitment process – in which case these data will be processed until the consent is withdrawn.
You have the right to access their data, rectify, delete, object, limit processing, and transfer. Your consent may be withdrawn at any time. Withdrawal of the consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data that was made on the basis of your given consent before its withdrawal. A declaration of withdrawal of the consent to the processing of your personal data should be sent to the e-mail or postal address indicated above.
You have the right to lodge a complaint to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office if you feel that the processing of your personal data violates the provisions of the GDPR.
The provision of personal data is voluntary but necessary for the participation in recruitment process. Failure to provide personal data will result in the inability to participate in the recruitment process.
RODO/GDPR
Information clause
The controller of personal data is L’Oréal Polska Sp. z o.o with its registered office in Warsaw (00-844) at Grzybowska 62. Contact with the Data Protection Officer and additional information about the personal data processing carried out by the Company is possible via e-mail address: [email protected].
The processing of personal data is carried out for the purpose of the recruitment process in accordance with Article 6(1)(c) of the General Regulation on Personal Data of 27 April 2016, (hereinafter GDPR). Data processing to a wider extent than resulting from the provisions of labor law, for the purposes of the future recruitment processes will be carried out on the basis of the given consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR.
Your personal data will not be disclosed to other entities without your prior consent. Your personal data may be made available at the request of entities authorized to do so under the law. The controller may, by means of a written contract, entrust to another entity the processing of your personal data to the extent and for the purpose necessary to perform the service. Your personal data will not be transferred to a third country/international organization.
Your personal data will be kept for a period of 2 years from the end of the recruitment process – in which case these data will be processed until the consent is withdrawn.
You have the right to access their data, rectify, delete, object, limit processing, and transfer. Your consent may be withdrawn at any time. Withdrawal of the consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data that was made on the basis of your given consent before its withdrawal. A declaration of withdrawal of the consent to the processing of your personal data should be sent to the e-mail or postal address indicated above.
You have the right to lodge a complaint to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office if you feel that the processing of your personal data violates the provisions of the GDPR.
The provision of personal data is voluntary but necessary for the participation in recruitment process. Failure to provide personal data will result in the inability to participate in the recruitment process.